Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mercedes Benz Durability for the Record

[LS (lashdeep]

I've already gotten death threats!

Rainbolt stated it years ago, car religion is tough to change regardless 
of empirical data. 

LS





----- Original Message ----
From: Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com>
To: LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:30:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Mercedes Benz Durability for the Record

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Mauricio, agree on most of your points. On a semi related tangent...
>
> The sad fact is that the 80s and 90s are gone. The new German stuff is
> "fairly well built" but nothing can touch an E30 BMW or W123 MB for
> construction.
>
> 1989-
>    Euro-excellent materials, excellent build/reliability
>    Japanese-decent materials, excellent build/reliability
>    Domestic-Mostly CRAP
>
> 2009-
>    Euro-excellent materials, decent build/reliability
>    Japanese-excellent materials, excellent build/reliability
>    Domestic-(Caddie/Corvette/Big Trucks/Mustang/Viper/G8/etc.) are way
> above Euro and just    a step down from Japanese
>
> For some reason, the public isn't getting this message though.
>
> I just spoke with an enthusiastic E92 M3 owner last week. He also has an
> E39 M5 and openly admitted that it's had a lot of repairs (VANOS, front
> control arms, assorted electrical glitches, clutch problems) all after only
> 85k miles. He chalks up the design deficiencies as "maintenance".  He bought
> it because of various E30 and E34 BMWs he's had. He asked me about my CTS-V
> and without hesitation commented that he wouldn't buy American because of a
> bad experience with a 1989 Pontiac Sunbird.
>
> It's more about car religion than actual science or tech unfortunately.
> This is the buyer thought process and mentality car makers have to deal with
> today.
>
> God bless them.
>
> LS


This entire post needs to be stickied on all the major car forums out
there....if anything the last paragraph sums it up perfectly.

LS, the saying about first impressions are true. Once made, extremely hard
to change.

FG
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